{"id":376,"date":"2007-02-25T19:47:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T09:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2007-03-01T14:11:50","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T04:11:50","slug":"maxine-mckew-alp-for-bennelong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Maxine McKew, ALP for Bennelong"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Goddess,<\/a>Since her recent retirement as one of the very best interviewers and journalists ABC has ever had, Maxine ‘Da Goddess’ McKew has been working as an adviser to Kevin Rudd.<\/p>\n

Today, McKew formally joined the ALP<\/a>. She will run for the PM’s electorate<\/a> of Bennelong.<\/p>\n

You go,<\/strong><\/em> grrrrl.<\/p>\n

McKew took no prisoners as an interviewer. Maxie was known to kill and eat lesser political hypocrites, right there while on the air. Gnaws on their skulls with her very own teeth. Now that she can be openly partisan, expect much more serious fireworks, if that’s even possible in civilised political discourse.
\n
\nIf elected, let’s hope Maxine is instantly made Minister for Communications. We may see real broadband and an end to commercials on SBS in your lifetime, if we get so magically lucky.<\/p>\n

Johnny’s Bennelong<\/a> seat, classified as ‘marginal’ by AEC, hinges on a 3540 vote (4.34%) swing.<\/p>\n

2004 Federal Election Results:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bennelong<\/strong><\/p>\n

Enrolment:
\n86,220
\nInformal Vote:
\n5.84%
\nTurnout:
\n94.61%
\nSeat Status:
\nMarginal Liberal
\nTwo Party Preferred:
\nLP: 54.33% ALP: 45.67% <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nothing<\/strong><\/em> would be sweeter.<\/p>\n

-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since her recent retirement as one of the very best interviewers and journalists ABC has ever had, Maxine ‘Da Goddess’ McKew has been working as an adviser to Kevin Rudd. Today, McKew formally joined the ALP. She will run for the PM’s electorate of Bennelong. You go, grrrrl. McKew took no prisoners as an interviewer. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}